Life Science
Topic: Interconnections within Ecosystems

Content: All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy

Lesson Plans:
Students will learn that oraganisms require energy
How do ecosystems provide for energy needs of organisms?
What would be some causes for some of the resources of ecosystems to disappear?

STEM:
Students can create their own ecosystems that can sustain life
Students can go online to research their own environment or pick thier favorite animal and research the ecosystem/habitat it lives in

Simulations:
How many Bears Can Live in the Forest? Project WILD
Oh Deer! Project WILD
What did you life cost wildlife? Project WILD

ORC:
#3470 Ecosystems provide essential services to life
#3538 How organisms satisfy their needs through their ecosystem
#6479 Charecteristics of our own environment

Literature:
The Backyard Naturalist
by Craig Tufts

Text Referance:
Wet n Wild p99
WOW! THe Wonders of Wilderness

Related Vocabulary:
Ecosystem
Habitat
processes
Organisms
Energy